Re: PowerMac G4 booting from memstick image

"Brandon Bergren" <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.os.freebsd.devel.ppc
Message-ID <[email protected]>

On Mon, Apr 19, 2021, at 9:16 PM, Mehul Sanghvi wrote:
> 
> 
> > On Apr 19, 2021, at 21:42 , Brandon Bergren <[email protected]> wrote:
> > 
> > This may be caused by a descynced timebase. At the loader prompt, do "boot kern.smp.disabled=1" (or set it in the loader environment) and see if that fixes it.
> > 
> 
> This would be after installing freebsd yes ? 

I meant while booting into the installer. You can hit a button during the countdown and boot with extra options.

Oh, and after some discussion in IRC, I realized that I was misremembering what I still needed on the G4 side, and it should theoretically work on *all* SMP G4s as-is.

> 
> >> 
> >> Having gotten to the point of selecting Install,  the keyboard wouldn’t 
> >> work.  An Apple keyboard, hooked up via KVM switch, which was working 
> >> just fine upto that moment.  
> > 
> > I've seen this for some reason on ADB. I can usually work around it by using a USB keyboard. But it could be due to screwed up timers (due to timebase desync)
> > 
> 
> The Apple keyboard is an USB keyboard but I worked around it by using a 
> spare USB keyboard I had.

OK.

> 
> 
> The ISO got past the mountroot issue, but too many messages of the form
> 
>     CAM status: CCB request completed with an error
> 
> 
> I may have to see if I have other USB flash dries around and try those. 
>  It could very well be the USB flash.  I didn’t realize the G4s would 
> be picky about the stick that is used.

Well, generally the problem tends to be that the stick just plain doesn't show up as a disk@1 device in OF.



> 
> cheers,
> 
>     mehul
> 
> 
> 
> 


-- 
  Brandon Bergren
  [email protected]
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